Mark William Padilla

Classical Myth in Alfred Hitchcock's Wrong Man and Grace Kelly Films

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book treats six beloved films of Hitchcock: The 39 Steps, Saboteur, and North by Northwest, plus Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and To Catch a Thief. Padilla reviews their production histories with an eye to classical influences, and then analyzes their links with Greek art, poetry, and philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 758g
• ISBN-13: 9781498563505
• ISBN-10: 1498563503
• Artikelnr.: 53689749

Autorenporträt

By Mark William Padilla

Inhaltsangabe

Preface List of the Feature Films of Alfred Hitchcock List of Illustrations
Introduction Part One: Three Wrong Man Films Chapter One: The 39 Steps'
Reception of Homer's Odyssey: Modernist Myth via John Buchan and Gilbert
Murray Chapter Two: Saboteur and the British Museum's Parthenon Sculptures:
Athena, Hephaestus, and Poseidon as Models for Pat, Barry, and Tobin
Chapter Three: North by Northwest's Receptions of Oedipus: Campbell, Freud,
Nietzsche, and Sophocles Part Two: The Three Grace Kelly Films Chapter
Four: Dial M for Murder as the Net of Hephaestus: Untangling the Mythic
Imagination of Frederick "Knott" Chapter Five: Rear Window's Seductions:
The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and Sirius' Dog Star Ritualism Chapter Six:
To Catch a Thief's Vacation on France's Côte d'Azur: Maenads, Dionysian
Actors, and Plato's Sôphrôsyne Bibliography Index